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March 19th 2014:CommonCore and Our Kids

As loving parents we want what’s best for our children. We want them to live their lives better than our own. There isn’t anything that a loving parent will not do for their own kids. We want them to grow up to become whatever they can dream of being. Education is at the center of their success and often discussed by politicians. There was No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and now we have CommonCore. All are good innocent sounding names, but why are they so controversial, especially CommonCore. Why is CommonCore so dangerous? Why should every liberty-loving parent be against it? W

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Whitney Neal

Whitney Neal is the Director of Grassroots at FreedomWorks. She came to DC in 2012 from Flower Mound, Texas (near Dallas) where she spent the last five years as an eighth grade United States history teacher and working to elect fiscally conservative candidates, most recently Ted Cruz.
Whitney holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Relations and a Master’s Degree in Public Policy and Administration with an emphasis in Education Policy. She loves all things Texas—including Mexican food, country music, BBQ, floating the river, and flip flop weather.
When she’s not busy working with grassroots activists at FreedomWorks, you can find her hanging out with family, shoe shopping, reading the clas